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How to delete lines from Vim? How to delete ranges of lines? How to delete lines by a given pattern? Let’s cover in this article different ways to delete lines in Vim editor.
Install Vim in Ubuntu/Debian distributions
# sudo apt install vim
Install Vim in RHEL/CentOS distributions
# yum install vim
1) Delete a single line
To delete a single line in Vim editor, follow the steps below
- Place the cursor to the beginning of the line
- Press the ESC key.
- Next, press
ddi.e quick press letter ‘ d ‘ twice in quick succession.
In the example below, pressing dd at the beginning of line 6 as shown below will delete the entire line.
2) Delete all lines
Below are the two ways to delete all lines.
:1,$d
or
:%d
3) Delete multiple lines
To delete multiple lines
- place the cursor at the beginning of a line.
- Prefix the dd command with the number of lines you want to delete below it. For example, if you want to delete 3 consecutive lines below line 3 press
# 3dd
4) Delete a range of lines
If you want to delete a range of lines, say from line 3 to line 5, the syntax is as shown below
:[start_line_no],[end_line_no]d
In this case, Press ESC Then type the command below and hit Enter.
:3,5d
To delete the last line
:$d
To delete all lines before the current line
:1,.-1d
To delete all lines after the current line
:.+1,$d
5) Delete lines by a given pattern
Finally, you can delete lines following a given pattern.
For instance, to delete lines that contain a certain word, press ESC and run
:g /word/d
In our case, to delete lines that contain the word “lazy”
:g /lazy/d
To delete every line that doesn’t contain the word “lazy”
:%g!/lazy/d
or:v/lazy/d
To delete lines that begin with a certain letter, say ‘A’
:g/^A/d
If you want to delete lines that begin with a special character like $ sign, prefix the character with a backslash as shown
:g/^$/d
To get rid of all blank lines
:g/^$/d
Do you have any tips to delete vim lines? Hope this article helped you and please leave your comments.
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